› added 3 months ago

20

TIL Tonys Chocolonely bars are divided into uneven parts to symbolise the inequality in the cocoa industry, with some squares even being shaped into countries known to be exploited for cocoa

Read more tonyschocolonely.com

via reddit.com

1a1rd TIL About 235 BC - Eratosthenes of Cyrene calculated the circumference of the Earth with astonishing accuracy, with a value that is only 6% higher than the actual one.
KOyB4 TIL that the saying "when one door closes, another opens" is an Alexander Graham Bell quote, which he then followed by saying "but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
oB0W8 TIL about Edith Sampson, who in 1950 became the first African-American to represent the U.S. at the United Nations. She later became the first Black U.S. representative to NATO and became the first Black woman to be elected judge in the state of Illinois.
8eGJK TIL on August 8th, 2023 a historical society installed a plaque commemorating Dave Matthew’s Band tour bus dumping 800 pounds of human sewage on a tour boat beneath a Chicago bridge.
g1pA TIL parental refusal of vaccination is child neglect